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These Ofsted reforms won't solve our accountability problems Superficial changes could lead to untintended consequences while the real issues persist, warns Sir Jon Coles

This is very good from Jon Coles schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-refor...

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Love this book! Happy birthday @drcastelino.bsky.social !

So we have just launched the History Education Research Journal (HERJ) page on Bluesky. Follow it here - @histedresearch.bsky.social. Diamond open access peer-reviewed UCL Press research journal - no fees for authors or for readers.

I can’t think of anyone in ed who looks like anyone in oasis 🤪

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An art history of back to school Ever since I published 'An art history of school inspections' a few years ago, studying the way that art has portrayed schools has been somewhat of a hobby of mine. In this post, I'll take you through...

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An art history of inset Over the past few years, I have been exploring the art history of teaching on this blog, sharing some of my favourite pieces of artwork across various topics within education. You can view my past blo...

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An art history of autumn term The way that artists have portrayed education throughout history has been something of a fascination for me in recent years. Over a series of blog posts, I have explored how artists from various eras ...

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As more and more teachers are joining I thought we could do with some photo introductions for those new to edusky:

Amazing (but not surprising!!) to see @drcastelino.bsky.social book continuing to prop up the Amazon new release charts.

You can join all the other cool cats and kittens who have pre-ordered it here: amzn.eu/d/9Q0t8yg

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Knowing, richly When I first led CPD on curriculum in my school, I was mindful of the need to counter the suspicion that a knowledge-rich approach is just about rote learning of facts. I did this by talking about how...

It seems to be the done thing to post old blogs on here so I'll share a few of mine over the next few days. Feel free to ignore. This one's probably my favourite on how my thinking about a knowledge-rich curriculum has evolved. #UKEd #UKTeaching #EduSky occamshairdryer.wordpress.com/2022/06/11/k...

A collection of my blogs this year:

A question of tone and not techniques - Why I think we need to put a greater emphasis on tone rather than techniques

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